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Constitutional Law for a Changing America Resource Center

Lee Epstein
Thomas G. Walker

A Short Course

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  • I. THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
  • 1. The Living Constitution
  • 2. Understanding the Supreme Court
  • II. INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
  • 3. The Judiciary
  • 4. The Legislature
  • 5. The Executive
  • III. NATION-STATE RELATIONS
  • 6. Federalism
  • 7. The Commerce Power
  • 8. The Power to Tax and Spend
  • IV. ECONOMIC LIBERTIES
  • 9. The Contract Clause
  • 10. Economic Substantive Due Process
  • 11. The Takings Clause
  • V. CIVIL LIBERTIES
  • 12. Religion: Exercise and Establishment
  • 13. Freedom of Speech, Assembly, and Association
  • 14. Freedom of the Press
  • 15. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 16. The Right to Privacy
  • VI. THE RIGHTS OF THE CRIMINALLY ACCUSED
  • 17. Investigations and Evidence
  • 18. Attorneys, Trials, and Punishments
  • VII. CIVIL RIGHTS
  • 19. Discrimination
  • 20. Voting and Representation

Cases

Racial Discrimination

  • Brown v. Board of Education II 
  • Cooper v. Aaron 
  • Green v. County School Board of New Kent County 
  • Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County 
  • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents 
  • Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education 
  • Scott v. Sandford 
  • State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada 
  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mechlenburg Board of Education 
  • Sweatt v. Painter 
  • The Civil Rights Cases 
  • The Slaughterhouse Cases (Butchers' Benevolent Association v. Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughter House Company) 
  • Gratz v. Bollinger
  • Grutter v. Bollinger
  • Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

 

Sex Discrimination

  • Bradwell v. State of Illinois 
  • Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County 
  • Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan 
  • Orr v. Orr 
  • Rostker v. Goldberg
  • United States v. Virginia 
  • Sessions, Attorney General v. Morales-Santana 

 

Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation

  • Bowers v. Hardwick 
  • Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission 
  • Obergefell v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health 
  • United States v. Windsor 

 

Remedying the Effects of Discrimination: Affirmative Action

  • Adarand Constructors v. Pena 
  • City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. 
  • Fisher v. University of Texas 
  • Fullilove v. Klutznick 
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 
  • Schuette v. BAMN 
  • United States v. Paradise 

 

 

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